Tests wrong capability? (reloaded)

  • Resolved Touda

    (@touda)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hi. We’ve got centralized moderation so we want to do the opposite of this plugin’s mission. Yet, the info page for this plugin says it can do it: “If, by any chance, the post author has no moderation rights (Contributor level) or there is no author e-mail set then the default site e-mail address will still get the notification.”

    As it was noted by other user nearly 3 years ago, although you have User Role plugin configured to not allow Authors of Contributors to moderate anything, the plugin does not work as expected 🙁

    The plugin’s author told him that he would test that, but I see this plugin still doesn’t check that moderate_comments permission.

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  • Thread Starter Touda

    (@touda)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve tried to manually add edit_comment permission to User Role Editor panel and to explicitly disable it there, but it has not worked: emails are still sent to Contibutors (posts’ authors) and not to site’s Admin.

    Plugin Author Rolf Allard van Hagen

    (@ravanh)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hi @touda as I explained to the OP in https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/tests-wrong-capabilty/ this plugin does not test for any capability. It only adds a filter to wp_notify_moderator() which removes the main admin e-mail address if there is an author address.

    It is in fact the WordPress core function https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/functions/wp_notify_moderator/ which test for the edit_comment capability. So if that capability is missing from the User Role plugin, maybe ask that plugin’s developers?

    I would guess that the edit_comment capability is not in the User Role plugin because it is not a simple “on/off” capability but rather depends on other capabilities of that post’s author.

    That said, I might be able to work on a variant of this plugin which would be able to achieve what you are looking for… You can send me a message via https://status301.net/contact/ where you can explain in detail what you are specifically looking for 🙂

    Thread Starter Touda

    (@touda)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you very much, Rolf, for the quick and complete explanation. Yes, I guess it wouldn’t be too dificult to make that variant plugin – it’s a great idea indeed, and I will send you that message right now 🙂

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